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Outdoor community meal under a large patterned tent with draped dark cloth panels and red geometric motifs. Seated guests, many children and several women in saris, eat from banana leaves laid on long wooden tables with blue and red plastic chairs. A young man in white kurta and dhoti holds a steel bucket of food and serves, while a man in a white kurta with an orange shawl stands at the centre. Another attendant in white walks at the right. A large printed banner at the right shows a portrait of a figure in a light head covering, with Kannada text beside it.

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A large outdoor annadhan meal under a tent with colourful printed cloth panels on the walls. Long wooden tables are lined with seated villagers eating from leaf plates, many in saffron-free everyday clothes, with women in green and blue saris. Several young volunteers in white dhotis and white shirts with orange shawls serve food and carry a cardboard box, and a bearded man in saffron robes stands near the tables. A large steel vessel is at left. Red earth ground and palm trees are visible beyond the tent.2008-01-13A photograph of a food distribution under a large red and yellow patterned canopy strung between bamboo poles. Many villagers, including children and women in saris, sit on long wooden benches at tables covered with plates of food. On the left a bald man in white with an orange shawl serves from a bucket, and in the centre a man in white with an orange shawl stands among the diners. A second man in white, with a lanyard, ladles from a steel pot on the right. Tented walls of patterned cloth in red, blue and orange surround the area, with palm trees and a building behind.2008-01-13A photograph of a communal meal under a tent with patterned red, black and white fabric walls. Children and adults sit at long wooden tables on red plastic chairs, eating rice and condiments from large green banana leaves set before them. Plastic cups sit beside each leaf. A man in a white shirt and a man in white clothes stand among the diners, and a bearded man in a white shirt and white dhoti sits at the far end of the table. A banner on the right shows a bearded man in a turban and a printed Kannada text. Sandy ground lies beneath the tables.2007-07-08September 03 20072007-09-03 +1 copiesA photograph of a large open-air meal distribution under a colourful striped canopy with printed textile panels showing peacocks and mandala-like designs. Many seated people, mostly villagers, eat from leaf plates at long wooden tables with blue plastic chairs. Two standing volunteers in white clothes, one wearing an orange shawl, serve food from a steel vessel. A woman in a green sari sits at the right foreground. Palm trees and a low building with a sign stand behind the tent.2008-01-13A photograph of a community meal in a tent with striped and patterned cloth hangings. Long wooden tables are lined with rows of seated people, many in colourful saris and salwar, eating from fresh green banana leaves laid on the tables. A man with short dark hair wears a white kurta and white dhoti and stands with his back to the camera, facing the seated diners. Volunteers in white clothes move between the tables, and a large banner portrait of a bearded figure in a white turban hangs at the back of the tent beside a white signboard. A white logo sits at the top left corner of the tent.2007-07-08A langar-style food distribution in an open tent at an outdoor camp. A young man in a white kurta and white dhoti with an orange waist cloth stands at the center, serving food from a large steel bucket with a ladle. Seated along two long blue-covered tables, women in red and white saris and children eat from metal plates containing flatbread and rice with bananas. A striped drape of red, green, yellow and white hangs behind them, and a large framed portrait on the right shows a smiling man in an orange turban and orange garments, the portrait labelled with Paramahamsa text. The ground is bare earth.2007-09-03A long outdoor annadan meal under a tent with colourful printed cloth backdrops showing peacocks and mandala-like circles. Many people sit at long wooden tables on blue and red plastic chairs, eating from green leaf plates heaped with rice and white mounds of yogurt or rice. Men in white shirts and dhotis and older men in checked shirts and lungis sit side by side, with a young boy in a white shirt at the front left. A figure in a saffron top stands at the back among other people in white clothing.2007-09-23September 03 20072007-09-03 +1 copiesA photograph of an outdoor annadan meal service under a tent with colourful printed cloth backdrops featuring peacocks and circular mandala patterns. A bald man in white clothes and an orange shawl stands at centre holding a metal pot, serving food. Seated guests at long wooden tables with blue plastic chairs eat from large leaf plates, including children, adults, and a woman in a blue top with a long braid. Sunlight filters through trees overhead.2008-01-13A large outdoor annadan meal under a canopy of red, orange and patterned cloth hangings. Rows of seated villagers, mostly women in blue and green saris and men in shirts, eat from leaf plates at long wooden tables, with blue plastic chairs along the benches. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti with a rudraksha mala serves rice from a cardboard box with a ladle, while a younger man in white with an orange shawl stands at right. A bearded man in a saffron-orange robe stands in the centre-left, and an elderly woman in teal sits at the far right. The ground is dusty red earth.2008-01-13September 23 20072007-09-23